In this program, Liam goes to a Celtic Festival, “The Potomac Celtic Festival,” in Leesburg, Virginia, a place in the country outside Washington. Liam met with many people, heard lots of music and ate many Welsh cookies and drank bottle after bottle of clear, cold water on a terribly hot day!

There were more than Scots and Irish (and Americans) at this festival — there were groups representing every Celtic nation and some other regions connected with the Celts and their languages: Asturias and Galicia in Spain, for example.

We’ll hear interviews with Joan Weiss, director of the Scottish Gaelic singing group Mac-Talla from Maryland; Bill Reese of Moch Pryderi, a Welsh band from Virginia; Beth Benedetto, an Irish learner and teacher; Albert Jenkin from the Cornish American Historical Society; Kevin Deasy and Kate MacGregor; and Dave Browne, president and chief fryer of the “Infamous Welsh Cookie Co.”